Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-13
LOCAL BREVITIES.

feet IL inches yesterday.
But one arrest was made yesterday-Ch
See by II. G. May for petit larceny.
Two orange specials went East last even
ing, with total of about twenty cars.
The ladies of the Congregational Church
will give social in the church parlors this
evening.
]. Burchard, of Rocklin, is having large
hotel of so rooms constructed in that town.
John Davis is the architect.
To-day the fraternal societies of Newcas-
tie and vicinity will hold Joint picnic at
Owen Kings Grove, near Newcastle.
]. r. Hodson and w. f. Smith shipped
horses TO Woodland yesterday, to take part
in the races which commence to-day.
So many Indians are bringing Truckee
trout TO this city Tor sale that the fish
markets find them damaging competitors.
The steamer Dover cleared for the upper
Sacramento yesterday with merchandise
and lumber, and the San Joaquin No. 4,
for San Francisco, with merchandise.
Miss Carrie A. Goss, NJ D., of this city,
was elected Second Fice-President of the
State Homeopathic Medical Society at its
meeting in San Francisco Wednesday.
Sam Whitehead, the well-known pool
seller and corps of five assistants, have
gone to Denver to do the pool-selling at a
racing meeting to be held there next week.
The Strangers theatrical company
came down from the upper country yester-
day, EN- route to Oakland and Chinese
theatrical company passed through from
Marysyille to Fresno.
Business was very light in the Police
Court yesterday, there being only two cases
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for exhibiting, forfeited her deposit. D.
was discharged.
Mrs. j. Z. Moore formerly Olive A. Ray
died at Live Oak, Suffer county, last Tues
ceased was raised in this city. and was the
daughter of J. r. Ray. ex-City Surveyor,
and brother of +. L. Ray.
Daniel Noonan, who was arrested at
Santa Monica last Sunday for train wreck
ing near st. Louis about year ago, is a
baseball player ssand said to, be one of the
best second-basemen in the country. He
recently endeavored to get place with the
Atlas, but his offer was not accepted.
A dispatch from Tucson states that ]. Z.
Dixon, formerly of this city, who got lost
on the plains in Arizona, and was two
days and nights without food or drink,
was found fly the Coroner's jury to have
| died from exposure during temporary alb
erration of mind. caused by financial
| troubles.
The average Signal Service temperature
Yesterday was 60.90, which is 1.5o warmer
| than the mean average temperature for
that day during nine years. The highest
and lowest temperature was 74o and 4So
with brisk to gentle northerly winds dur
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night. with clear weather prevailing. This
vas the third day of north wind.
Mrs Goepel, who resides on street, be.
tween Tenth and Eleventh, complained tc
the police yesterday that boys who play
f. are exceedingly annoying by reason Of
| their noise and the bad language used. A:
| evidence that they do great deal of play.
/ ing, she produced about a score of base
balls which had been knocked into hel
yard and by her confscated.
There was large and enthusiastic meet
| ing of the General Committee at st. Paul:
| church yesterday to determine upon the
arrangements for the floral festival and
! promenade concert, to be given al Turner
| Hall. Various subcommittee were ap.
pointed, and general meeting will be held
again Oh Monday afternoon. The festival
will be held on Friday evening. the Doth OF
this month. 1t promises to be quite an
| event.
The employees of W. r. Strong & Co
yesterday presented MIR. Strong, the senior
member of the firm, with very handsome
silk hat, in recognition of the fact that il
was his SEVENTEEN birthday. In the pre-
sentation remarks it was incidentally men
toned that it haG been proposed to present
him with cane, but, as he is SO renarka-
bly, active and vigorous, putting to shame
In that respect many men of middle age
such gift was deemed inappropriate. The
members of his business family expressed
| their regard for him so heartily and sin
cerely that very naturally he felt touched
and much gratiied.
! Yesterday afternoon, four boys who had
been looking for blackberries in the brush
along the American river, stole a skiff and
a duck boat from where they were moored
in the slough back of the Maulden ranch
The duck-boat they took short distance
and concealed IN the brush; but the skiff
a large white boat, built rather low and fat
they dragged over the roadway from The
slough into the Sacramento. Two OF the
boys then came down the river in her
| while the other two returned TO town in {
vehicle they had been using-a light wager
drawn by sorrel horse. The police woulG
ike information concerning them.